National Republican (Washington City

SOUND SENSE
Addressed to the People of the North.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

The bourbons, north and south, will savagely attack Gen. Mahone for the address he has just published, but if it produces the effect in the north that it should, the unfortunate negroes who were shot down like dogs in the streets of Danville will not have died in vain. The bourbons have again established the color line in politics, and declared for a solid south. The northern press, following the example of the Commercial Advertiser and the Washington Republican, have said that against a solid south a solid north is sure to rise. This is said to be a revival of the "bloody shirt," which was laid away years ago. Well, if the bloody shirt is brought out again, it will not be the northern republican press that did it, and sensible and thoughtful men everywhere will see that. The southern bourbons are responsible, and they cannot complain for what has been done. We publish on another page some notable passages from Gen. Mahone's address, which we commend to the reader's attention. They tell how thoroughly the coalitionists were intimidated, and how defenseless negroes, fatally wounded, crawled, like poisoned rats, out of sight to die. These are the only methods by which the south can be kept solid, and they are the methods that have been encouraged by the press of the north, which has systematically distorted Mahone's plans and purposes. The question now is, do the voters of the north intend to continue such encouragement? It remains with them, after all, whether the country shall continue in the abnormal condition desired by the bourbons; for if a solid north opposes the solid south the bourbons insist on, it means hopeless campaigns for the democratic party, and its leaders in the north for their own salvation would order a cessation of the shotgun policy. As the situation is now, however, it calls for the reprobation of every patriotic citizen in the country. It is apparent that the bourbon sympathizers in the north anticipate some answer like this. To-day the two democratic organs here, the Sun and World, both endeavor to cry down the effort to direct public attention to the outrages which have been perpetrated. But it will not do. Public opinion in the north will be created, and with that creation there will come a revulsion in feeling that will at last sweep bourbonism away forever. Let the people of the south understand that they have sympathizers here, and the change will not be long coming. There are abundant signs of this. The young men of the south are wearying of the old ways, and are anxious to cast them aside, and if the north shows its detestation in an unmistakable way, the end will not be far off. The address to the people of North Carolina by P. H. Winston, Jr., should be spread before the people of the north, and it would prove a notable companion to Gen. Mahone's. In it he showed in an eloquent and vigorous way why he could not longer act with the democratic party of the south, and in a masterly review of its history he showed its iniquities.